Hawaiian seabirds

Brown booby (left) and masked booby (right). Photo (c) Dan J. McSweeney

While our studies in Hawai'i focus on odontocetes, for a number of years we have been attempting to photograph rare or uncommon species of seabirds, and in recent years have been tallying all seabird sightings and providing sightings and photographs to be included in the online Birds of the Hawaiian Islands as well as contributing sighting information to the Hawai‘i Birding group. As well as an important opportunity to document the seabird community in Hawai‘i, we also record information on seabirds interactions with various species of whales and dolphins. We present below photographs of most species of seabirds we have documented in Hawaiian waters.

For more information contact Robin W. Baird at rwbaird (at) cascadiaresearch.org or Daniel Webster at dwebster (at) cascadiaresearch.org or see our Hawai‘i odontocete research page

The species we've documented in Hawai'i are listed below - click on a name for photos of each species (we are still adding some species) - all photos are taken in Hawaiian waters:

Black-footed albatross

Photo (c) Dan McSweeney

Laysan albatross

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Northern fulmar

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Hawaiian petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Cook's petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

White-necked petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Black-winged petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Kermadec petrel

Photo (c) Robin Baird

Murphy's petrel

Photo (c) Robin Baird

Juan Fernandez petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Mottled petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Bulwer's petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Wedge-tailed shearwater

Photo (c) Brad Hanson

Dark morph wedge-tailed shearwater. Photo (c) Robin Baird

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Sooty shearwater

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Newell's shearwater

Photo (c) Robin Baird

Photo (c) Robin Baird

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Leach's storm petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Band-rumped storm petrel

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Red-footed booby

Photo by Robin Baird

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Brown booby

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Masked booby

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Great frigatebird

Great frigatebird chasing booby

Red-tailed tropicbird

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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White-tailed tropicbird

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Red-necked phalarope

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Red phalarope

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Long-tailed jaeger

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Pomarine jaeger

Photo (c) Robin Baird

South polar skua

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Arctic tern

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Gray-backed tern

Sooty tern

Photo (c) Annie Douglas

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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White tern

Least tern

Photo (c) Robin Baird

Brown noddy

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

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Black noddy

Photo (c) Daniel Webster

Laughing gull

Photo (c) Darren Roberts

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Glaucous-winged gull

Franklin's gull

Photo (c) Robin Baird

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